LoTek Bricks

Instructionless

2011-12-23T09:26:00.000+01:00

I decided to challenge myself a bit when building 9391 Mini Crane. The instructions were put aside (without browsing) and I was only allowed to see the photos on the box to build the set.

It went surprisingly well, all the parts was there and a lot of the parts could be traced from the photos. In the end I only made one mistake, I only used one bushing on the turret rotation knob instead of three:

One thing that got quite a bit confusing was where the support for the boom was suppose to be attached. I first attached it at the end of the beam with five empty holes until the brace, as it later turned out this is the correct way.

But while playing with the model I noticed that I could not lower the boom as much as the box photos. Upon closer inspection I noticed that the beam continues past the black mechanism in the photos. On the left it is also quite clear that there are only four empty holes. But built this way the supports collides with the bottom of the superstructure.

TLG has cheated with the model for the box photos (which is pretty common).

All in all this was a very fun little exercise and I will build more small sets this way in the future!

Bye bye christmas

2011-01-14T08:22:00.002+01:00

Robotkampen 2011

2011-01-07T23:59:00.000+01:00

Finally Robotkampen was planned for a day where work did not interfere so badly. We had not joined in on the LEGO robot competition since 2005, good thing we could participate in this tenth installment!

Lot's of things had changed since the last time. I've been more or less in a new dark age and it became quite clear that the NXT-kit was way better then the old RCX, especially since the motors now has rotation sensors built in. I bought a kit and had planned to look at both building and programming but time up to the competition was mostly spent on other things.

So coming to the competition ill prepared and finding a super hard task gave us much trouble. After over four hours and with 1½ hour until competition time our robot looked like this:

And since we did not have a robot to test the programming on not much was done there either. Ooops! :D

So what was the super hard task? Take a look at this photo:

The task was to move all red balls into the red hole, all the blue balls into the blue hole, all gray into gray and two yellow corner balls into the yellow hole. Each color earned different score based on how far the balls had to be moved. The red and blue could quite easily be knocked down into their holes but the gray and yellow needed to be collected and carried some distance.

I suppose I don't have to write that we did not succeed very well in this. We only got time to practice twice on the table, there were 21 teams queuing to do the same so time got even sparser. But we had a lot of fun!

Speaking of time getting sparse, 15:00 the robots had to be finished and placed on a certain spot. We did so with nine seconds left. :)

Here's my teammate Harri and our two fans Supermario and Nextuz.

The competition has begun!

The scoreboard after two competition runs. Max was 400 but the best team "only" managed 160. We got a mere 20. :)

Some of the 21 robots, the ones missing are getting fine-tuned for the finals.

The teams. Some had traveled half the country to get there!

Judge keeping track of the scores.

Our robot as it finally turned out. We did not use any sensor and only two motors after the motto Keep It Simple Sutpid. On the left (right in this photo) we put a ball carrier, to empty it we planned on going close to the hole so the balls fell out under it. Alas we never got that far. :)

Here's hoping Robotkampen 2012 also will be on a day where we easily can skip work! Until then I hope to find some real programming environment for the NXT and perhaps even get a few ours of practice. :D

SW Shooting range (everyday life)

2010-11-15T00:12:00.003+01:00

MOC for a contest at Eurobricks. Create a Star Wars-themed "Everyday life"-vignette (this post as a topic there). Here's mine:

Playing back the security tapes from the recent Jedi "courtesy call" it became quite clear that the Stormtroopers could not aim their guns. Funds were set aside to create a shooting range for the Stormtroopers to practice their skills. The shooting range is now completed and it's quite easy to find; just visit the "green corridor" in the new Death Star.

You'll find a stair case leading up to the shooting range. Darth Vader himself took these stairs today. A meeting got cut short when he killed the other attendees (as he often tend to these days), so he decided to visit the shooting range. Enough about that, let's climb the stairs shall we?

Uh-oh! It seems Darth got his steam up and are busy killing yet another Stormie. But this is the engineer behind the new shooting range, what could have kicked Darth back into killing-minions-mode again?

Well, it should not have been the Stormtroopers who are busy at target practice?

...and it should not be the Stormtrooper who's busy downing an Ewok-burger. Eating those pesky little critters is standing orders.

Wait a minute... what the Hoth does the targets resemble!?!?

Duckons from Naboo? No surprise Darth felt compelled to get rid of the chief engineer!

Here's an overview of the whole scene (apart from the green corridor that's below the table and Darth):

And a few more not concerning about what's in the background (a huge pile of miscellaneous MTB-accessories).

And here's a video showing the different parts:

Happy Halloween!

2010-10-28T22:01:00.001+02:00

There's a little fun contest going on at Eurobricks; spook up your SigFig/Avatar to celebrate Halloween. I turned mine into the head spin-scene from the movie the Exorcist. Back in 1973 that actually got people fainting!

It was my first take at stop-motion animation and a quick one at that, so the image jumps around a little and the light flickers. But hey!

Here's a still image.

And the original for comparison.

How I did it.

SweBrick XI the movie

2010-10-19T09:30:00.001+02:00

The 11th LEGO-gathering among AFOLs in Sweden took place this past weekend. I was there on Saturday.

We had tons of fun! Here's some footage:

LEGO: SweBrick XI 2010-10-16 from Tobbe Arnesson on Vimeo.

ULV, the movie

2010-01-25T08:53:00.002+01:00

January 9th there was an ULV-competition in Eskilstuna. I shot some 35 minutes of footage that's now edited down to almost eight minutes.

LEGO: ULV 2010-01-09 from Tobbe Arnesson on Vimeo.

The forum thread with some photos, in Swedish only.

"eBay" find!

2010-01-21T12:52:00.004+01:00

I recently joined the Swedish version of eBay, named Tradera. There I found set 802 with box. The box has lots of ball point markings on the back and at least one of the small red gears are missing (I have a few since before), the parts are in very good condition. I got it for SEK 77,- including shipping ($10 or €7) so I can hardly complain. :D

At the moment I'm quite hooked on Tradera bidding low on lot's of stuff, and loosing lot's of auctions. But I'm not there to win, I'm there to find bargains...

Nostalgia, video from SweBrick V

2009-12-16T08:52:00.004+01:00

I found the old Hi8-tapes and what I shot from SweBrick V back in 2003:

LEGO: SweBrick V 2003-10-24 -- 26 from Tobbe Arnesson on Vimeo.

To read about the meeting and se still photos see it's general blog post.

First BrickLink order

2009-12-08T20:13:00.003+01:00

I was just browsing the onion domes, I had a plan for those last time I built. Wanted to see if they still were available in any set, which led me to Bricklink where I found 'em in a Swedish store. They were too cheap not to buy and while I was on it I ordered a few other parts. Oops!

This was certainly not my last Bricklink-purchase!

lotek.nu goes blog

2009-12-02T13:08:00.003+01:00

My old page used to be at www.lotek.nu but fiddling with HTML is not very 2009, so now I've moved all the content to this blog. I've also added some new material that never made it to the old page. Enjoy!

SweBrick X

2009-11-07T10:58:00.005+01:00

The Swedish AFOL's had a little get togheter in Fagersta. I shot some footage and edited this:

LEGO: SweBrick X 2009-11-07 from Tobbe Arnesson on Vimeo.

Here's my result after the "building blindfolded"-competition. Not so good, got three errors. One of the blue lights on the bar and both fenders turned the wrong direction.

Nice to build a little after a loooong rest from bricks. This is a small creek diorama.

Another competition was micro scale towns, I made this SciFi space Energy plant.

I also made this evil building.

Most of the attendees take photos of the ducklings (see the video).

TLG sponsored with lots of great prices, here's Harri with a big box of Star Wars. Personally I made second last place overall and "only" got a few small sets...

The day was turning into night and we all were a bit tired, strange things emerged...

Trying to remember one of the last MOCs I made before leaving the bricks I made this tank. 5 studs wide, up side down and half-stud centered lengths wise. Why make it easy?

It was a very good meeting, nice to see some old faces again and also meet a lot of new ones!

LEGOLAND

2009-08-06T11:42:00.002+02:00

Went to visit a friend in Copenhagen. While in Denmark I just had to go to Billund and LEGOLAND for the first time. Enjoyed Miniland a lot but as there are already tons and tons of good photos from there on The Interweb™ I wont post that many...

Here's the real thing shot another day:

And here's the LEGO replica.

Café "Pitten" and it's menu of sodas next to the Traffic School. In Swedish this literately means "The dick", I did not want to drink anything from it. :D

Miniland was invaded by some mallards, made some good waves for the boats. :D

Best thing about LEGOLAND was the amazing Power Builder ride, strap down yourself into a gigantic industrial robot and ride what you programmed. Tons of fun! Here's someone else's video of it:

Unfortunately the park was crowded with kids and what not so there was a looong line for most attractions. Shame, I'd love to ride the Power Builder several times. There's always next time...

RobotWars bot

2008-12-27T15:07:00.001+01:00

In March 2005 there was an AFOL-event i Karlskoga with RobotWars, for that I built this robot and in the end won the competition. To learn more about the event see the page for SweBrick VII.

Most of my bricks went into storage but I kept the robot and a RIS-set at hand in case my fingers got the itch. It took a while but the itch came and I decided to tear down the robot and build something else instead. But first I had to snap a shot or two...

Wedge-design.

In the middle I had an arm for lifting via pneumatics, four airtanks that I pumped manually before combat but also an on board compressor. The arm was way to weak to do any difference once into combat...

In the back I had two big wheels that spun fast to bounce away enemies that attacked from behind. The batteries for this function drained and the wheels hardly spun at all. I had two small battery boxes for these wheels and the compressor and two big battery boxes for propulsion.

Guts. I had four motors per wheel hooked to the battery boxes via a number of electrical plates arranged to put out 18V instead. Here's a guide how to build that, but stay cautious!

It was a lot of parts in this robot. :-O

In the end I never built anything with the parts...

Ooooh!

2008-01-13T11:58:00.001+01:00

I want my bricks! Now! :-O

Robotkampen

2005-04-09T14:55:00.007+02:00

The 2005 installment of Robotkampen arranged by Framtidsmuseet.

This year went went straight for the cheese!

Our robot.

Practice.

Prizes.

Team SundBorn programming.

Another adult team trying to find the problem.

The KnottHeads.

Two robots got hooked on each other. :D

Harri coming down to compete.

Our robot ready to go. If my memory serves me right we built all the functions on there from the start, no need to change equipment during the competitions.

Bringing home Ruben.

Djurås Vuxna was meticulous with the aim.

And in the end they won it all, and there was much rejoicing! :D

This year we managed to win the "best construction" prize again. :)

Team SundBorn was doped...

This was the last time we participated, the event used to be on Saturdays but got moved to spring brake when Harri and I are at work. :/ Perhaps we'll give it ago again in 2010?

SweBrick VII

2005-03-06T10:18:00.026+01:00

Written 2nd of December 2009.

Olof arranged SweBrick VII in Karlskoga, or SweLUG as it was called back then.

When Harri and Tobbe arrived Akira, Andréas, Jonatan and Johan were playing BrickWars.

One of the activities was RobotWars, this is my robot.

Olofs monorail. What's it called? Monorail!

Akiras weapon of destruction.

Andréas did not have time to build his robot at home...

Microtown.

Some of Olofs gray bricks for his Catalina.

Letters...

Andréas tries to design a weapon.

Olof cooks while Anders reads the recipe...

Akira made a Swleug sign.

...and building...

Parts of Olofs Catalina-project.

Tobbe helped Andréas with a weapon...

Jenny.

Time to build vehicles for the ULV!

Almost equally fast, yeah?

Quixote know no boundaries.

...and got smashes against Tobbes bone. D'oh!

Timy-time was faster up-side-down, here against Audrey.

Råsie literately flies down the slope...

Fly-hair-high in smithereens.

BULLdozer could go this far, but did not manage in competition.

Copa-hop has jumped, or not.

l33t sn4x0r never made it over the jump.

Touchdown!

BATTmobile goes long!

Crash & burn is about to...

You missed the "soft" landing pad...

Quixote overshot the landing...

...and suffered the consequences.

Results in the ULV:

1. Tobbe and Quixote 60 p.
2. Akira and Crash & Burn 56 p.
3. Harri and BATTmobil 50 p. (he would have won if the length had been it's max)
4. Pernilla and Audrey 49 p.
5. Carin and Fly-hair-high 43 p.
6. Johan and Sir Blackwood 39 p.
7. Anders and BULLdozer 38 p.
8. Jenny and Råsie 34 p.
9. Andréas and Copa-hop 30 p. (won one subcomp)
10. Olof och Ford Y 30 p. (did not win any subcomp)
11. Andréas and Timy-time 19 p.
12. Jonatan and l33t sn4xx0r 17 p.

It would seem Harri is none to pleased with his third place?

Typical SUV in metropolitan Sweden, all that terrainness ruined with slicks...

It would seem Andréas finally finalized his robot! Quixote is afraid!

Harris X-wing.

Relay-building.

Andréas building in blindness.

Tore.

Olof memorizes the instructions.

Results set 6532
-----------------
1. Andréas, 3 mistakes with the time 6:06.2 = 7:36.2
2. Harri, 1 mistakes with the time 8:35.7 = 9:05.7
3. Olof, 2 mistakes with the time 8:10.4 = 9:10.4
4. Akira, 4 mistakes with the time 10:02.0 = 12:02.0
5. Tore, 2 mistakes with the time 18:52.4 = 19:52.4

Tobbe unofficial time (I saw everybody else build but did not study the instructions);
0 mistakes with the time 7:26.1

Some old sets

Quite a warm day today.

Tobbe made a design study on a MTB.

Trailer tank with battery box inside.

Time to smash some bricks up! Tobbe with his robot.

Harris controls.

And robot.

Andréas robot.

And Akiras robot.

Andréas and Akira getting ready to battle.

Akira won which gave him +10 points and Andréas -10 points.

Next up: Tobbe vs. Andréas.

Andréas digging that hammer deep into Tobbes robot.

As you might see, Andréas lost this game as well. Tobbe got +6 points and Andréas -8.

Next up: Harri vs. Akira.

Both got negative scores in this round; Harri -6 and Akira -2.

Pause for some heavy repairs...

...which suited Andréas fine since he has not repaired his robot yet!

Next up: Tobbe vs. Akira.

Tobbe won, rendering another +8 while Akira suffered -8.

Now it was time for Andréas to make pieces fly from Harris 'bot.

But in the end Harri won and got +2 while Andréas got -8.

Last round; Harri vs. Tobbe. It was quite even but in the end Tobbe got a +8 and Harri a +5.

Last round, just for the fun of it. MELEE!

Despite the last minute build and heavy losses, it seems Andréas is quite pleased never the less!

Some markings on Harris robot from Andréas clobbering.

Olof kept the scores in some obscure way.

The results in the end:

1. Tobbe got 22 points (+6, +8, +8)
2. Harri got 1 points (-6, +2, +5)
3. Akira got 0 points (+10, -2, -8)
4. Andréas got -23 points (-10, -8, -5)

Just a few more shots of the place.

After this we got a quick pizza and went home.

Huge thanks to Olof for organizing the event and to everybody that came and made it a blast!

SweBrick VI

2004-11-14T08:45:00.021+01:00

Written 2nd december 2009.

After much discussion a SweBrick-event (or SweLUG as it was called back then) was about to take place in Jönköping arranged by Andréas Rootzén.

In Jönköping one can buy cheap LEGO! :)

Eric and Oskar in the Hovslätts Missionskyrka.

Harri can't wait to get going on his new set.

Unpacking MOCs.

Tobbes mech.

Building has begun...

Olof and Andréas.

Harris MOC.

Someones barn.

Olof builds a vehicle for ULV, that never took place.

Oskar, now five.

Andréas brother popped in for a visit.

Andréas and two apprentices.

Moonbase building...

Tobbe made a ring of 1x2 bricks, which drew Oskars attention.

Erics moonbase module.

Olof and Andréas joined forces.

Harri made a garage.

Tobbe was not very creative that day...

Joels ship inside Harris garage.

Results after some relay building.

ULV vehicles that never raced.

Tobbe took all of Andréas horses out for a spin.

Harri takes a brake.

The Moonbase is taking shape.

Window by Olof.

Elevator.

Minifig DNA?

Erics revolving airlock.

Olofs lunar vehicle.

A bin of foliage.

Parts of Olofs project to build a Catalina.

Radar on Olofs moonbase module.

Window on Erics bathmodule.

Olofs energy-module.

Joels ship.

Olofs lunar vehicle.

Vehicle for ULV.

Harri made this for the ULV.

Harri in the morning.

GOOD MORNING! Here's my camera flash! *evil grin*

Tobbes MOCs back in the box.

Packing...

Breakfast.

Apparently the church was needed for other things on the Sunday.

In the elevator on the way to Andréas flat, quite cramped.

Andréas stores the bricks.

Harri playing at Upptech.

Ok, let's build!

Tobbe played with patterns.

And so did Harri.

Oskar playing with Tobbes bridge.

Andréas and Eric built pillars for a suspended cable bridge.

...while Olof built the roadway sections.

Andréas ponders how to attach the wires.

Bridge taking shape.

Almost done! And what a bridge!

Perhaps not the flattest bridge out there...

But a seven meter gap is quite impressive!

Will it hold for a 8455 Back-Hoe?

Ready with the camera? I'm letting go now!

Lo and behold!

Nice curvature...

Andréas: I wonder how much I can tilt this column...

Ooops, not that much! :D

The other pillar is still standing proud!

The bridge in smaller chunks...

In Andréas office...

Good times, thanks again Andréas who arranged it and all who participated!

Sign

2004-06-26T17:47:00.000+02:00

"Welcome in!" proclaims this clown outside a toy store in Rättvik.

Alkohol and ULV

2004-04-09T14:02:00.000+02:00

Invited some friends for drinks and Ultimate LEGO Vehicle, this should be interesting!

Began by dropping the box of 2x2 plates on the floor.

Living room set for building.

Some welcome drinks, rather stiff Tequila Sunrises.

Candy for the masses!

Building has begun!

Tobbe all psyched up!

Harri appears to be psyching down?

The vehicles are done, time to hand out esthetic's-points.

Musbil (mouse car) by Jenny.

Hästtransport (horsecar) by Anna.

Absolut Chromata by Tobbe.

Bonneville by Ryddan.

Redrum Mk II by Harri.

Vehicelo Logelo by Harri (to make it an even number of vehicles).

Apropå (apropos) by Anki.

Anna and Jenny were so even that it took three runs to separate them.

Harri blocks of Anki.

Tobbe leaves Jenny well behind.

Harri vs. Harri.

Harri vs. Jenny.

Tobbe vs. Harri, love the face Harri! :D

Speed-round finished, time to judge how far the vehicles can go.

Harri did not make it very far.

Neither did Anki.

Once that was finished, it was time for food.

Now, let's jump right into the action! Here's Jenny.

Anna.

Tobbes vehicle soars like the brick it is...

Ryddan whips out a FAT table top!

Anki shows off the undercarriage.

Tobbe keeps track of results.

Anki doing some repairs.

Time for the bonus event, destruction derby! The vehicles are pushed hard into head on collisions until one of them is unable to roll any more, no repairs allowed. First up Jenny vs. Anna.

Tobbe vs. Ryddan.

Harri vs. Anki.

This took forever but eventually Anki was unable to continue.

Tobbe vs. Jenny.

Okay, that might have been the end...

Harri vs. Harri was a short game.

Harri vs. Beer took a while longer.

Tobbe vs. Harri.

In the end Tobbe won and got (to keep) the prize!

1. Tobbe
2. Anna
3. Harri

All vehicles in pieces again. The destruction derby was hard on the bricks...

Robotkampen

2004-04-04T13:40:00.000+02:00

Time for the 2004 installation of Robotkampen arranged by Framtidsmuseet.

Harri and Tobbe with a brainclogging cold (already making excuses).

New team mate this year with Ryddan!

Minor rebuild of the chassis...

Ryddan dropped a motor 3-4 meters, it broke...

Prizes.

Röde installs the camera.

Mmmm...Max!

Team LA²FOL planning.

Ball delivery system.

Team Y-son took the metal-look all the way.

Ryddan and Tobbe on our balcony, hence the high motor drop...

Another adult team...

We mange the whole challenge with seven seconds to spare.

For the first time we had time to actually check out the museum...

Competitions has begun, hard fight to get the barrels.

Our first attempt failed miserably, perhaps we should have done more practice runs and verify the reliability in stead of playing in the museum?

Ryddan and Tobbe discussing what went wrong.

Next time we made it up the ramp but team Y-son did it just a little bit faster.

Interview.

Third time lucky? Nope...

The other tasks works fine though!

Some other robot got tangled up.

Oooh! We made to semis!

Our 'bot.

Judges judging technical aspects.

First prize to team Y-son.

We did not get any big prize this year, but all got treats - yay!

Number two.

Clean up.

DUPLO-clone

2004-02-29T17:46:00.000+01:00

DUPLO-clone found at Dollar Store.

SweBrick V - General

2003-10-26T14:48:00.016+01:00

Time for the fifth Swedish AFOL event. Yet again home at Tobbe in Ludvika.

Present this time:
Tobbe, Anki, Harri, Ryddan, Emil, Sofia, Johan, Henrik, Eric, Karl, Oskar, Pernilla, Anders, Johannes, Jonatan and Jenny.

Some things that got their own pages:

Ultimate LEGO Vehicle - 106 photos
Blind folded building - 18 photos
Moonbase - Build modules at home and attach to the base. 82 photos (64 modules)
Relay building - 24 photos
Misc. creations - 30 photos

Below are some other photos that did not fit in the categories above.

Update 2009-12-16: Found the old Hi8-tapes!

LEGO: SweBrick V 2003-10-24 -- 26 from Tobbe Arnesson on Vimeo.

The venue before moving in the bricks.

The bricks and some people have arrived.

The prizes. 8451 Dumper. Intended as robotics prize but became "Rookie of the year" instead. 7467 International Space Station, prize for best moonbase module. 7411 Tygurah's Roar, prize for longest travel distance to get here. 8374 Williams F1 Team Racer 1:27, prize in the ULV.

Some wall decorations, trains by Jeroen de Haan.

The first have arrived.

Emil has motorized a robotics project of mine that never was finished.

Harri builds Halloween decorations.

The gang from Linköping has arrived.

Emil builds a moonbase module.

Anki builds a set for photos.

Spaceship in the works.

Floor cleared off for night guests.

Display window.

Jenny explains something for Oskar.

Oskar is probably the coolest four year old I've met, not shy at all and very polite and calm!

Oskar plays in the display window.

Johan got the prize for longest distance travel, he came all the way from Halmstad.

Tobbes moonbase module of the church won the prize.

Henrik got the prize for "Rookie of the year", read his first message here (in Swedish only).

The display windows after Hurricane Oskar...

And after Hurricane Tobbe, may the trains derail! :)

Display.

Henrik packs his bags for the trip home, Oskar watches.

The blind-folded building got well documented.

A little more room to move on, next venue needs more than 45 square meters!

Some creations awaiting disassembly.

...and even more.

Harri hard at work disassemblieng, for a while we were five persons doing this.

Anki rebuilds the set for photos.

Sofia sorts while Emil disassembles.

Packing has begun.

Nifty tables.

The first trip to the apartment, thanks again for all the help!

Venue almost cleared.

Somebody is bored...

Quite a few bricks to sort. The most amazing thing is that all of my ~50 pink bricks got used - yikes!

Photo studio.

Sofia with creation.

Taking photos.

Time to leave, see ya' next time!

Even more disassembly...

Leftovers of 2,3 kilos of candy...

SweBrick V - Moonbase

2003-10-26T14:47:00.018+01:00

This was part of a larger event, see the events general blogg post.

The theme for things to build at home and bring along was modules for a common moonbase, based on Anders Isakssons 16x microstandard.

Oskar plays with the modules before they got moved to the apartment, it was too big to fit in the venue.

The modules in the apartment.

Modules being placed out.

Space-paparazzi Eric stalks the base.

Close up on one of the Isaksson-family modules.

Tobbes restaurant.

Staring to look like something.

Ankis bath module.

Tobbes charter landing place has been invaded by a Millenium Falcon. In the background a revolving air lock can be seen.

May the force be with you! The idea of the space men is borrowed from Brian Muzas.

One of the windows on Tobbes church.

Isakssons repair shop.

Nano figs with head ornaments.

Almost all modules in place.

Beds.

Showers.

Close ups! :)

Restaurant.

Teamwork.

All modules in place!

Spectators.

Overview.

The Isakssons repair shop again.

More of the Isakssons modules.

Johans elevator module.

Harris factory.

Ankis bath and tanning, made second place in the "vote for best module".

Tobbes hotel.

Some of Johans modules with "extended" standard.

Harris radar tower.

Emils module with out roof has got a rat problem. A huge rat problem!

Misc. modules.

Nessie on the moon?

Henriks green house.

Misc.

Ryddans blue module with the antennae up.

Misc.

Satellite dish.

Misc.

Tobbes church, first prize.

Tobbes cosy corner with the lights on.

Overview.

Revolving tower with needles and lights.

Overview.

Close up on Henriks green house.

Harris vehicle.

Tobbes hotel in it's parts.

The church with out roof.

The Isaksson restaurant.

Misc.

Isakssons three step module.

Isakssons living room.

Ryddans secret weapon deployed.

Under the roof of Tobbes charter landing platform.

One of the Isaksson modules with hinges.

Close up on some charter tourists.

Tobbes suspended bridge, guaranteed not air tight.

Inside Isakssons station.

Tobbes church.

Overview.

People.

The Priest in Tobbes church about to perform a moon wedding ceremony.

Harris tower, which he upgraded to be taller then Tobbes - with Tobbes bricks. Bastard!

Another peek inside Isakssons station.

Tobbes elevator, the module also have lights.

Set up again.

Oskar playing with the base.

Billboard!

Close up.

Quite clustered!

Tobbe moves up in the world.

All builders except Emil and Anki.

The people in .space thinks Fleebnorks is a problem, they have never wrestled with a giant mutated space-rat which is vacuum resistant!

SweBrick V - Relay building

2003-10-26T14:46:00.006+01:00

This was part of a larger event, see the events general page.

Everybody starts building something on a theme, say "space". After 15 bricks have been attached the construction is passed along to the next person. When the creation is back with it's originator it is done.

If five people join in there will thus be five creations of approximately 5 x 15 pieces. To put some preassure on everybody building the swaps are at the same time and when all but one has put in their 15 pieces. Thus there are no guarantees that you have time to attach 15 pieces before you need to pass it along (and occasionally you add a few more).

This is only fun if everybody tries their best to do something sensible about the whole thing, if somebody puts in odd pieces to sabotage the fun is lost. When passing the creation along you don't communicate what you had in mind, it's up to the next builder to interpret and use their imagination.

Building.

Trying to see what it became and what it was supposed to be.

Space ship in the works?

Focused.

Example of what you might get to work with, this under the theme "racing".

Some finished constructions under the theme racing. Note the squid!

Creative use of a head in the bag net, it was not that easy to get it out again.

Some became better then others...

The first builder intended a front spoiler for a F1-car, Tobbe thought it was a plane. But what did it become?

New theme, animals. Tobbe tried to make an elephant but...

What became the hind legs was supposed to be eyes!?

New theme, space. Karl tried to make an satellite but it became more of MIR?

Eric was set on using the tractor bucket.

Pretty successful considering how it was made!

SweBrick V - Misc. creations

2003-10-26T14:45:00.008+01:00

This is but a small part of a larger event, see the events general page.

Let loose a bunch of AFOL's among bricks and a lot of spontaneous creations and design studies will emerge. SweBrick V was no exception on this rule.

Anki decided to build LEGO jewelery, here's a necklace...

...ring and bracelet...

...and a pretty uncomfortable ear ring.

TIE-fighter?

Space ship by Henrik.

Russian launch vehicle by Harri.

Cowboy Be-bop by Harri.

Is it a boat or a space ship? Never the less, it was made by Johan.

Emergency rescue shuttle? Probably Johan again.

Chili Binks and a small ship, by Johan.

More space by Johan.

Skull by Harri.

Car by Emil.

Snail by Harri.

Space ship by someone.

Firetruck by Ryddan.

Robots by Oskar, age four.

Robot by unknown.

Spaceship by unknown.

London bus by Emil.

SweBrick V - Blind folded

2003-10-26T14:39:00.006+01:00

This was part of a larger event, see the general blogg post for more things that took place.

Blind folded building. Every contender got a blind fold, an instruction and a closed box with all the bricks from the set. The contenders then got five minutes to memorize the instructions. Then it was time for the blind fold and to open the boxes...

The set used was 7409 Secret of the Tomb with 41 pieces.

Five people stepped up to the challenge, in the order they succeed: Johan, Henrik, Emil, Karl and Harri.

It took them about 20 minutes to build this little set, it was great fun to watch! Johan finished first, closely followed by Henrik. Then Harri gave up, a while later Karl also gave up. Last to finish was Emil but he did not give up which gave him third place! As a prize they got to keep the set's they've built (or tried to build).

The idea came from Minx.

Studying the instructions.

Deep in concentration.

Blind folds on!

Ready ... set ... go!

A frantic rustle burst out as five people tried to open the bag with the parts with out spreading it's content all over the room.

Ah! There's the other leg!

Gah! Where is that brick!?

Eric helps out and returns lost pieces.

Harri has given up and tried to see what went wrong.

All sets as finished as they got. Harri, Karl, Emil, Henrik and Johan.

Harri had some problems attaching the arms and legs to the skeleton! :D